Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever by Peter Ryle
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are in playful mood on the video for Cameo, which acted as the final preview of their new album Sideways To New Italy before its release earlier this month.
“We made this video with Nick Mckk, who shares our vision for the earnest and the absurd,” Fran Keaney says. “This is our first video to feature skivvies, a wall of cardboard boxes and a human-powered rotating stage.”
‘If Hope Downs was a pleasantly retro overdose of eighties’ guitar jangle, then its follow up is no conscious attempt to pivot away from that’, Live4ever opined in our 7.5/10 album review:
“Hands up, this is a simplistic take, but although some of the songs here are tied to different locations – Darwin (Cameo), Melbourne (Beautiful Steven, The Cool Change), the tiny town of Rushworth (Not Tonight) – they more or less break on the listener at the same angle,” it reads.
“This chattering urgency is present from the beginning on The Second Of The First as feelings of confusion about place are easy to hear: ‘Nothing is the same/The street hasn’t changed/There’s a light feeling in the back of my head/And my mind’s somersaulting’.”
